Published on: 18/01/2018
The World Water Forum is the world's biggest water-related event and is organised every three years by the World Water Council (WWC). The 8th Forum brings together the world's leading water experts to discuss the nine Forum themes and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The nine Forum themes are: Climate; People; Development; Urban; Ecosystems; Finance; Sharing; Capacity; and Governance.
You can meet IRC, Akvo, Wetlands International, and Simavi staff at the shared booth of the Watershed - empowering citizens partners in the Netherlands Pavilion hosted by the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) at the World Water Forum EXPO.
Below is a list of sessions where IRC or Watershed partners will act as (co-)convenor or where IRC staff will give presentations.
Title | Date & location | Convenor(s) | Co-convenor(s) | IRC/Watershed partner contact person |
[OS-TP-67] Session 7.a.1. Multi-stakeholder platforms and practices as a solution to SDG 6' shared challenges | Mon. 19 March 16:30-18:00 Room ST5 (M11) | IRC | Elynn Walter | |
Netherlands Water Partnership[NWP] reception in collaboration with the Embassy of the Netherlands | Mon. 19 March 16:30-18:00 Netherlands Pavilion | NWP | ||
[OS-TP-59] Session 6.a.2. Broadening the access to financial resources to peri-urban low-income areas and small-scale water services | Tues. 20 March 09:00-10:30 Room ST4 (M10) | Water.org | IRC, WaterAid | Catarina Fonseca |
[OS-TP-61] Session 6.b.1. Financing water governance | Tues. 20 March 14:30-16:00 Room ST4 (M10) | IRC | WIN, AFD, FANSA | Catarina Fonseca |
Integrating WASH and freshwater ecosystem conservation to achieve SDGs | Tues. 20 March | Conservation International | Wetlands International | Frank van Weert |
[OS-TP-18] Session 2.b.3. Putting in place the necessary building blocks to reach sanitation for all | Wed. 21 March 11:00-12:30 Room ST2 (M8) | FANSA | Erma Uytewaal and/or Elynn Walter | |
[OS-TP-82] Session 8.c.1 - Use of mobile phone technology, sensor technology, remote sensing, drones and modelling in water monitoring and management | Wed. 21 March | Akvo | World Meteorological Organization (Switzerland) | Jeroen van der Sommen |
[OS-TP-93] Session 9.c.1. How to enhance multi-level water governance? | Wed. 21 March 14:30-16:00 Room ST7 (M13) | OECD | IRC / Watershed | Erma Uytewaal |
[OS-TP-83] Session 8.c.2. Enhancing transparency, accountability and inclusiveness by stakeholders through ICT and capacity building | Wed. 21 March 14:30-16:00 Room ST3 (M9) | CAPNET | Elynn Walter | |
[OS-TP-84] Session 8.c.3 - Open Source and big data for water use efficiency and sustainable management | Wed. 21 March 16:30-18:00 Room ST3 (M9) | Akvo | Jeroen van der Sommen | |
Wetlands International informal session on Integrating WASH and ecosystems to achieve SDG6 | Wed. 21 March | Wetlands International | Watershed: IRC, Akvo, Simavi | Paul Brotherton and Frank van Weert |
Presentation and Discussion: Preliminary findings from Global accountability study for SDG 6 implementation and the role of civil society to hold governments accountable.[Informal session] | Thurs. 22 March | IRC | Watershed, Coalition Eau, WSSCC, FANSA, EWP | Erma Uytewaal and/or Elynn Walter |